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How RN’s Historic Trip Benefits Both The U.S. And China
Paul Chen, a student from the University of Virginia, writes in the student paper, The Cavalier Daily: President Richard Nixon once remarked “If there is anything I want to do before I die, it is to go to China.” Thirty years ago, President Nixon and Secretary of...
The Shanghai Communiqué
On February 27, 1972, the United States and China put together the joint U.S-China communiqué, the conclusion of Nixon and Kissinger’s astonishing weeklong visit to the People’s Republic. Kissinger had begun to outline the Shanghai Communiqué with Chou En-lai around...
TNI: PRK Unstable
Douglas Bandow — a Senior fellow at the Cato Institute — writes in the Nixon Center’s National Interest that “we are no longer sure” that the possibility of a peninsular war is low: The Republic of Korea’s president, Lee Myung-bak, has attempted to dampen speculation...
How One Time Problem Was Solved
Imagine the year is 1969 and it’s your lucky day when the telephone rings with a pollster from Gallup or Harris calling to get your opinion on just one critical question: How well informed on current events should the U.S. president be? Please choose one of the...
H.R. Haldeman – RN’s Pioneering Chief of Staff
Harry Robbins Haldeman, known professionally as H.R. Haldeman and to his friends, co-workers, and his President as "Bob," was the Chief of Staff at Richard Nixon's White House from January 20, 1969, until his resignation on April 30, 1973. The concepts and structure...
Part IV – The President’s Daily News Summary
Newspaper readers have their favorite sections. Everyone sees the headlines, but readers scatter after that: some to the comics, others to sports and still others straight to the obituaries and the weather. RN’s news summaries, however, offered a section unlike any...
Part III – The President’s Daily News Summary
Print media often referred to the Daily News Summary as the most exclusive newspaper in the world. It was a fair description because they were written to please just one person, RN himself. They began during the 1968 primaries by Pat Buchanan, who chose articles “the...
Part II – Sending The News To China
Few news summaries fell below 10 pages. In normal times, a short news summary ran perhaps 15, always single-spaced, and up to as many as 30 to 35 pages – in spite of constant efforts to keep them shorter. Even though some went long, we were reminded that the President...
Clifford Hardin, R.I.P.
The AP reports: Former U.S. agriculture secretary and University of Nebraska chancellor Clifford Hardin has died. The university confirmed Hardin passed away Sunday. He was 94. Hardin became chancellor in 1954 and then president when the University of Nebraska system...
Part I – Preparing President Nixon’s Daily News Summary
I was a young man just a few months shy of my 30th birthday, the father of a 3-year-old girl, husband in a marriage struggling to stay intact, when a Staff Assistant to the President of the United States asked me if I would like to work at the White House preparing...
